Was working now this morning its not

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Log from terminal is is below,  Went to play a movie this morning, the trailers show all the movies, selected one hit play, get the revolving wheel for what seems to be a long time then nothing but a blank screen.  Up to this point everything has worked flawlessly.  I have not installed any programs.  Even rebooted the iMac, made sure the plexserver was up and running prior to executing the plexconnect in the terminal window. Obviously I must have  done something but am at a loss to know where to go to attempt to fix.  Note: if I quit ATV3 and connect via a windows PC running plex client that same movie plays just fine.  Could really use some help. 

 

More info:

DNS on ATV3 is 192.168.1.131

IP on imac (Plex Server and PlexConnect running here:  192.168.1.131

Imac running ML 10.8.4

Media on a drive connected to the iMac

Uncertain of Plexconnect version, files in folder indicate June 18th 12:45 pm

 

settings cfg info:

[PlexConnect]
port_pms = 32400
enable_plexgdm = True
ip_dnsmaster = 8.8.8.8
ip_webserver = 0.0.0.0
loglevel = Normal
enable_dnsserver = True
ip_pms = 192.168.178.10
port_webserver = 80
 
 

Log:

Last login: Sat Jun 22 07:18:26 on console
Matts-iMac:~ iMacmcs$ cd /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates 
Matts-iMac:PlexConnect-XML_templates iMacmcs$ sudo ./Plexconnect.py
Password:
07:23:34 PlexConnect: started: 07:23:34
07:23:34 PlexConnect: ***
07:23:34 PlexConnect: PlexConnect
07:23:34 PlexConnect: Press ENTER to shut down.
07:23:34 PlexConnect: ***
07:23:34 PlexConnect: started: 07:23:34
07:23:34 PlexConnect: IP_self: 192.168.1.131
07:23:34 PlexGDM: ***
07:23:34 PlexGDM: looking up Plex Media Server
07:23:34 PlexGDM: ***
07:23:35 PlexGDM: servers discovered: 1
07:23:35 PlexConnect: PMS: 192.168.1.131:32400
07:23:35 DNSServer: started: 07:23:35
07:23:35 DNSServer: ***
07:23:35 DNSServer: Starting up.
07:23:35 DNSServer: intercept trailers.apple.com: 192.168.1.131
07:23:35 DNSServer: forward other to higher level DNS: 8.8.8.8
07:23:35 DNSServer: ***
07:23:35 WebServer: started: 07:23:35
07:23:35 WebServer: ***
07:23:35 WebServer: WebServer: Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 80.
07:23:35 WebServer: ***
07:33:57 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:33:57 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 58859)
07:33:57 DNSServer: Domain: ax.init-cdn.itunes.apple.com.akadns.net
07:33:57 DNSServer: ***forward request
07:33:57 DNSServer: -> DNS response from higher level
07:36:19 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:36:19 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 60086)
07:36:19 DNSServer: Domain: trailers.apple.com
07:36:19 DNSServer: ***intercept request
07:36:19 DNSServer: -> DNS response: 192.168.1.131
07:36:20 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:36:20 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 60086)
07:36:20 DNSServer: Domain: trailers.apple.com
07:36:20 DNSServer: ***intercept request
07:36:20 DNSServer: -> DNS response: 192.168.1.131
07:36:20 WebServer: serving application.js
07:36:21 WebServer: serving /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/plexconnect.xml
07:36:21 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:36:21 ATVLogger: loadItem: Library
07:36:21 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/sections
07:36:21 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:36:25 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/sections/3
07:36:25 ATVLogger: loadURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/sections/3
07:36:25 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:36:27 ATVLogger: loadURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/sections/3/all
07:36:27 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/sections/3/all
07:36:29 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:36:29 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/scrobble.js
07:36:34 ATVLogger: loadURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/metadata/875
07:36:34 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/metadata/875
07:36:36 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:36:36 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/selectAudioAndSubs.js
07:36:38 ATVLogger: loadURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/metadata/875
07:36:38 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/metadata/875
07:36:38 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 0
07:38:06 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:38:06 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 60015)
07:38:06 DNSServer: Domain: trailers.apple.com
07:38:06 DNSServer: ***intercept request
07:38:06 DNSServer: -> DNS response: 192.168.1.131
07:38:06 ATVLogger: Player state: Playing at this time: 2108
07:38:20 ATVLogger: Player state: Paused at this time: 2120.850554013
07:38:26 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 2111.097
07:38:33 ATVLogger: Player state: FastForwarding at this time: 2111.097
07:38:36 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 2119.097
07:38:47 ATVLogger: Player state: Rewinding at this time: 2119.097
07:39:23 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:39:23 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 51752)
07:39:23 DNSServer: Domain: trailers.apple.com
07:39:23 DNSServer: ***intercept request
07:39:23 DNSServer: -> DNS response: 192.168.1.131
07:39:23 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 0
07:39:52 ATVLogger: Player state: Rewinding at this time: 0
07:39:53 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 0
07:40:13 ATVLogger: Player state: Rewinding at this time: 0
07:40:13 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 0
07:40:58 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:40:58 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 55802)
07:40:58 DNSServer: Domain: trailers.apple.com
07:40:58 DNSServer: ***intercept request
07:40:58 DNSServer: -> DNS response: 192.168.1.131
07:40:58 ATVLogger: Player state: Stopped at this time: 0
07:40:59 ATVLogger: loadAndSwapURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/metadata/875
07:40:59 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/metadata/875
07:40:59 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:40:59 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/selectAudioAndSubs.js
07:41:07 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/sections/3/genre/71?X-Plex-Container-Start=0&X-Plex-Container-Size=50
07:41:08 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:41:12 ATVLogger: loadAndSwapURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/metadata/875
07:41:12 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/metadata/875
07:41:12 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/utils.js
07:41:12 WebServer: serving  /Users/iMacmcs/Downloads/PlexConnect-XML_templates/assets/selectAudioAndSubs.js
07:41:16 ATVLogger: loadURL (override): http://trailers.apple.com/library/metadata/875
07:41:17 WebServer: serving .xml: /library/metadata/875
07:41:17 ATVLogger: Player state: Loading at this time: 0
07:42:42 DNSServer: DNS request received!
07:42:42 DNSServer: Source: ('192.168.1.100', 49171)
07:42:42 DNSServer: Domain: trailers.apple.com
07:42:42 DNSServer: ***intercept request
07:42:42 DNSServer: -> DNS response: 192.168.1.131
07:42:42 ATVLogger: Player state: Playing at this time: 2108
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I've updated the original info above with more detail.  Additionally I've been experimenting more and believe this issue has something to do with attempting to play an .iso vs. a .mkv movie.  Plexconnect fails on the iso's but works with the mkv's.  I find this strange because if I access any iso movie using a plexclient it plays just fine.  Plex client as I indicated above is a separate mini pc (Win7 Ultimate).

Regards,

Matt

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Plex Media Center has limited support for ISO’s where as many other clients such as iOS, Android don’t because the files need transcoding and Plex Media Centre doesn’t transcode ISO’s. I suspect that this will probably be the reason for your issue.

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This is correct, even the desktop clients are likely to drop ISO and Video_TS support at some point.

I would look to batch reencode your files to Apple friendly format as it will likely play on most media players through hardware decoding.

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>> batch reencode your files to Apple friendly format...

But this - on the other hand - removes the need for Plex... you can use iTunes then. At least for your Apple stuff.

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Not true - the library management, streaming, metadata detection and client-server paradigm all make plex more appealing than having all my pieces in iTunes